CARDINAL ALESSANDRO. Nüshu -Writing the void

Nüshu literally means "women's writing”. Its pronunciation is based on the local dialect, that is, that of the villages located around Jiangyong county, in Hunan province, in the Southern China. It is difficult to establish a precise date for the creation of nüshu, but it was certainly born in response to the patriarchal society of the time, which inevitably placed women in a condition of submission.

The project takes the same name Alessandro Cardinale dedicated to Yao women and their hermetic writing.
Just as the restricted sharing of a system of signs allowed girls and wives to understand its meaning and communicate, in the same way the artist's works can be perceived from a specific point of view: only in this way can the observer discover the image of a female face or a landscape.